fumet

From the French fumet (“aroma”), from Latin fumus (“smoke”). Doublet of fumetto.

fumet (countable and uncountable, plural fumets)

1. A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
2. A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
3. Alternative form of fumette (“stench or high flavour of meat”).

Compare French fumier dung, Old French femier, from Latin fimum (“dung”). See fewmet.

fumet

1. The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
   • 1780, Nicholas Cox, The Huntsman‎^[1], page 57:

     The next thing to be considered, is the Fumishing ; and this is to be judged of in April or May. If the Fumets be great, large and thick, they signify the Hart to be old.

   • 1825, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume II, page 187:

     When he cries he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head; […]

• “fumet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• The Larousse Gastronomique
• Fumet, die.net.

From fumer + -et.

• IPA^(key): /fy.mɛ/

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fumet m (plural fumets)

1. aroma, odor (of meat etc.); bouquet (of wine)
2. (hunting) scent

• “fumet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• The Larousse Gastronomique
• Fumet, die.net.

• “fumet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

fūmet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of fūmō